A Meal of Thorns 53- TINY DEATHS with Ian Mond

Critic & reviewer Ian Mond talks us through Tiny Deaths, a very funny and frequently morbid collection. We also think bigger: about the place and status of humor and seriousness in genre literature, and why non-genre imprints and translated literature might be places to look for this energy.

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• Guest: Ian Mond
• Title: Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman
• Host:Jake Casella Brookins
• Music byGiselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork byRob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• The Writer and The Critic
• Tayari Jones’ Kin
• Boyhood by David Keenan
• Centreouropa by Vicente Luis Mora, translated by Rahul Bery
• Edward Royston’s Transgressing Time
• Christopher Priest's The Recollections
• Priest & Allan’s The Illuminated Man
• Sturgeon's Law (“90% of everything is crap”)
• Dr. Who & Stephen King
• Gallifrey One convention
• Donald Barthelme, Ishmael Reed, T.C. Boyle, Kelly Link
• Lisa Heschong’s Thermal Delight in Architecture
• Rachel Khong’s My Dear You
• The Simpsons
• Blindness by José Saramago, Julio Cortázar
• Shearman’s Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Everyone’s Just So So Special, and We All Hear Stories in the Dark
• “Chimes At Midnight” and “The Holy Terror”
• Douglas Adams
• Machine of Death, edited by Ryan North
• Jon Stone’s The Monster At The End Of This Book
• Sofia Samatar’s A Stranger in Olondria
• Groundhog Day, directed by Harold Ramis
• James Morrow's Towing Jehovah & Only Begotten Daughter
• Robert Heinlein’s “All You Zombies”
• Leyna Krow's Sinkhole and Other Stories
• Ed Park's An Oral History of Atlantis
• Michael Swanwick & Jeffrey Ford collections
• "Gate 9" in Pandemonium Waltz
• Hilary Leichter, Sayaka Murata, Liliana Colanzi
• Translated Hugo Initiative
• Words Without Borders
• Locus Award for Best Translated Novel
• Isaac Fellman's Notes From A Regicide
• Incandescent by Emily Tesh
• Sean McTiernan's SFUltra
• Locus Magazine
• Ian's Substack & Facebook & Goodreads